Are Mormons Christian?Inquiry into the Church of Latter Day Saints, a
peculiarly American Religion

They teach/have taught: Jesus is not Emmanuel, Adam is God, and
Salvation is by Works

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints claims that the name of the Church was given to Joseph
Smith by revelation. However, when Smith first organized the
Church in 1830, it was called the "Church of Christ," then four
years later the name was changed to the "Church of Latter-day
Saints," then in 1838, it was changed again, this time to the
"Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints"..

Regardless that Jesus told us "God is
Spirit", Mormons reject the unified Trinity and teach that God
has a body of flesh and blood.

Most Mormons are good, God
fearing people who believe in Christ as the Savior, the Redeemer, the Son of God,
the Creator of the earth, and the only source of salvation.
Who can doubt their love for God after sitting through a
wonderful Christmas celebration by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? What can one make of this? Yet many of their doctrines are
heretical to most Christians. Most Mormons are good,
God-fearing people. But like
Islam,
Scientology, and
Jehovah
Witnesses, Mormonism rejects the Gospel of Jesus -- and
therefore these push their members away from the true road to
salvation. Jews also reject this. But as Paul says--Jews have
been supernaturally blinded. Most important, however,
members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God and is their
personal Savior.

Some say Mormons present a
"gendered, married and procreating
god" with "a body of flesh and bones." This
despite Jesus telling us God is Spirit.

Mormons reject the Triune God.
The Jesus of
Mormonism is not co-eternal with the Father and of one substance
with the Father, which most Christians believe.

The three persons of the Godhead are, noted
in such Scriptures as Isaiah 48:16:

"I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; From the time
that it was, there am I; and now the Lord God, and his Spirit,
hath sent me."

The New Testament doctrine of the Trinity is evident in such a
verse as John 15:26, where the Lord Jesus said:

"But when the Comforter is come whom I will send unto you from
the Father, He shall testify of me."

"baptizing them in the name of the Father,
and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost" (Matthew 28:19)

Mormonism says: Jesus and Satan, like
the rest of us, were spirit brothers and sons of God before the
spirit of Jesus was given a body by Mary in Bethlehem. The
Mormon "Book of Moses" presents Satan and Jesus as contending
for the privilege of taking a body of flesh in order to become
the redeemer, with Jesus winning the contest. [See Joseph Smith,
Pearl of Great Price, Book of Moses 4:1-4.]

Mormonism also teaches that Jesus was the physical son of God
the Father and Mary, and that there is nothing in His life more
than what is attainable by anyone else.

However, while Mormonism is based on a
biblical belief in Jesus as the Christ, the teachings of
Mormonism concerning God and Man (expounded first circa 1840
near the end of Smith's life) extend far beyond the biblical
narrative in ways rejected by most traditional Christian
churches. Mormons believe that God the Father is completely separate
from Jesus Christ; that God the Father is the father of us all,
and of his son, Jesus Christ, and of all the evil spirits,
including Satan. Mormons have a creed similar to New Agers. The
LDS did once teach that "We can become Gods like our Heavenly
Father. This is exaltation." In Joseph Smith's
own words we can become like God (''what God is"). However, they have
apparently changed this teaching in recent years. They now
teach: "We can become like our Heavenly Father. This is
exaltation."

"Mormons won't tell you that all their
so-called scriptures such as the Book of
Mormon, Pearl of Great Price, Doctrine
and Covenants, and even their official
'Mormon Doctrine' statements contradict
each other…"

"Mormons won't tell you that the reason
the Book of Mormon has no maps is
because there is not one scrap of
archaeological evidence to support it!"

"Mormons won't tell you that their
prophet Joseph Smith was an ex-Mason
who was heavily involved in the occult
when he founded Mormonism."

"Mormons won't tell you that that
"Mormons won't tell you that they encourage visitations from
dead relatives from the "spirit world".
This is clearly a practice forbidden by
God". See Deuteronomy 18:10-12

"Mormons won't tell you that they think
"familiar spirits" are good, and that
their Book of Mormon has a "familiar
spirit".

Leviticus 19:31 says: Regard not them
that have familiar spirits, neither seek
after wizards, to be defiled by them: I
am the LORD your God.

Leviticus 20:6
And the soul that turneth after such as
have familiar spirits, and after
wizards, to go a whoring after them, I
will even set my face against that soul,
and will cut him off from among his
people.

"Mormons won't tell you that those
Mormons who have been through their
temples are wearing secret underwear to
protect themselves from "evil". This
"evil" includes non-Mormons like you and
me".

"Mormons won't tell
about their secret temple rites at all.
If they did, you would spot them as
non-Christians immediately."

Mormon beliefs are considered to be so far outside the
beliefs of most Christians that the Roman Catholic
Church, Presbyterians and the United Methodist Church
all declared that Mormon converts must be re-baptized, a
setback to the Mormon Church's effort to characterize itself
as a Christian denomination. The Vatican's
Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith declared that
baptisms in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
are "not the baptism that Christ instituted." The
ruling was a departure from the Catholic Church's usual
practice of recognizing the baptisms of converts from most
other churches. The Vatican held that the Mormon view of the
nature of God was too different from Catholicism's.
Southern Baptists have called Utah "a stronghold of Satan".

Statue of Moroni

Jesus told us, there would only be one
more revelation of truth that would come after Him. John 14:17,
16:7 & 13 tell us that Jesus said a "Spirit of Truth" (not a man
- a Spirit), the Comforter would come after He Himself departed.
This Comforter was to guide us "into all truth". So there would
then be no truth remaining which would be sealed or hidden. This
was Jesus’ way of saying there would be only one more revelation
of Truth after him. We know, that this was the Comforter who
descended on the apostles gathered together on Pentecost. There
have been no others.

According to Mormon tradition, the angel
Moroni is the heavenly messenger who first visited Joseph Smith
on the night of September 21-22, 1823. Adherents of Latter-day
Saint theology believe that Moroni is a prophet who lived in
North America in the late 4th century. In 1827, Moroni
supposedly delivered golden plates to Joseph Smith, which are
the record of Moroni's people -- ancient Americans known as Nephites and Lamanites. The golden tablets containing the
Book of Mormon and magic translation stones were supposedly
buried beneath a hill in Palmyra, New York. Since Joseph
Smith was the only witness to the appearance of Moroni, and only
eight others (all converts rather than disinterested witnesses)
claim to have seen the golden plates--there is little to
corroborate Smith's story. Most of these so-called
witnesses later left the Mormon Church. Smith says
that these valuable plates were lost.

In the Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, page
164, Brigham Young stated:

"...witnesses of the Book of Mormon
who handled the plates and conversed with the angels of God were
afterwards left to doubt and to disbelieve that they had ever
seen an angel."

A worrisome note smacking of what Jesus
was against is that the foundation of the practice of the Mormon
church is priesthood authority. Another of Joseph Smiths
doctrines was polygamy, a practice that Smith denied publicly
but practiced secretly. That doctrine was the obvious downfall
of Joseph Smith; he was killed during a shot out in 1844, as
a result of the polygamy controversy.

The Book of Mormon shows every indication of being
written by a rather uneducated man, who plagiarized most of it
from the King James version of the Bible. Amazing little
knowledge of Judaism and 4th-century Judea is noted in the Book
of Mormon. This Book of Mormon shares a common denominator with
another such contrived book. Both the Muslim Qu'ran and
the Book of Mormon exhibit gross chronological errors.

In Galatians 1:6-9 Paul says;

"I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him
that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel: Which
is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would
pervert the gospel of Christ. But though we, or an angel from
heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have
preached unto you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I
now again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than ye have
received, let him be accursed."

Would this mean that Mormons and Masonic
Worshipful Masters and other Masonic instructors are under the curse
of God? Don't both of these preach the contrary doctrine that
"salvation is by works" - as if they can earn credit points towards
earning a celestial reward? This is exactly the wrong reasons for
charity work and helping your fellow man/women. Doing it only
because of your love for Jesus and obedience to his loving message
to "love one another" is the correct motivation - knowing that you
are only saved by His grace. Isn't this new Mormon 19th century
Doctrine in violation of what Paul speaks of and warns about
above?

Islam and Mormonism have similar
roots/leaders. Both have prophets who made no prophecies, nor
showed any sort of divinity, or even divine inspiration.
History has shown that both were opportunists and murdered up to the
end, also. Both taught salvation by works.

Jesus never said a true
prophet would appear in the last days. Rather, He said
false prophets would arise who would deceive, if
possible, the very elect.

Why would Joseph Smith pull off the Mormon
charade? Let's listen to what another opportunist/cult leader
wrote:

Scientology's L. Ron Hubbard declared in the late
1940s: “Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous.
If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the
best way would be to start his own religion.”

While present-day Mormons do not
worship Joseph Smith, there seems to be evidence
that Smith wanted to elevate himself almost to the
same level as Jesus Christ.

Josiah Quincy related that
when he visited Joseph Smith in 1844, "the prophet
put this inquiry: 'Is not here one
greater than Solomon, who built a
Temple with the treasures of his father David and
with the assistance of Huram [sic], King of Tyre?
Joseph Smith has built his Temple with no one to aid
him in the work.' " (Figures of the Past,
as cited in Among the Mormons, p. 138)

The History of the
Church contains some statements which seem to
show that Joseph Smith felt he was almost equal with
God:

"God made Aaron to
be the mouth piece for the children of Israel,
and He will make me be god to you
in His stead, and the Elders to be mouth for me;
and if you don't like it, you must
lump it." (vol. 6, pp.319-320)

Mormons want you to believe their
"prophet", Joseph Smith was martyred:

In 1838, when Oliver Cowdery accused Joseph
Smith of adulterous affairs, Joseph had Oliver excommunicated. The
controversy over polygamy was the underlying reason for the death of
Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum. William Law's wife had confessed
that she had an affair with Joseph. William Law left the Church and
started a publication called "Nauvoo Expositor." One issue was
published and the second one was going to print when Joseph found
out that William Law was going to print his wife's confession in
that issue. Joseph had the press destroyed and the building burned.
That caused his arrest and, consequently, his death.
Writing about Joseph Smith, the Mormon church
"Prophet" and founder --John Taylor, third president of the Church of
Latter Day Saints wrote in the "Gospel Kingdom," page 360:

"Joseph opened the door slightly, and snapped the pistol six
successive times... afterwards (I) understood that two or three were
wounded by these discharges, two of whom, I am informed, died."

The same account is also in the History of the Church, vol. 6, p.
XLI and pages 617-618.

It was too bad that Joseph Smith was thus
killed, but he did not die like a martyr who went "as a lamb to the
slaughter" as is claimed by the LDS Church. HE DIED IN A GUNFIGHT,
and killed two people before he was shot. Joseph acted as a
Mason at
the time of his death. John Taylor tells also that Joseph went to
the window and made a Masonic distress sign after his gun was empty,
hoping that Masons, if there were any among this mob, would rescue
him, according to the Masonic oath "to defend one another, right or
wrong."

How Joseph Smith died - in a blazing gunfight:

After a brief struggle--during which Joseph
Smith, who had armed himself with a smuggled pepperbox revolver,
reached around the doorjamb and fired all six chambers--Hyrum fired
through the door and was struck in the face by a mobber's bullet. He
was hit by three more shots and died. Joseph leaped to the window,
where he became an excellent target for those outside as well as the
intruders on the stairway. Two shots from the doorway struck him in
the back; a third, fired from the ground outside, penetrated his
chest. "O Lord. My God!" he screamed, and plunged to earth.

The Mormon Temple Ceremony compares quite exactly with the Masonic
Ceremony; signs, tokens and penalties included. Joseph, Hyrum,
Brigham, and others, were Masons. Many Cult experts consider the Masonic
religion to be a Satanic Cult.

Six weeks after Joseph Smith and
other Mormons were expelled from the Masonic order, Joseph Smith
introduced the Masonic ceremony as the temple ceremony "received as
a revelation from God." When Dr. Reed Durham, director of LDS
Institute of Religion, made his discovery of this in 1974, and gave
his speech on the subject of the Mormon-Mason connection in front of
the Utah History Association on April 20, 1974, he was highly
criticized for making this matter public. He also showed the Jupiter
talisman and explained that Joseph had had it from 1826 (the same
year he was convicted on money-digging charges and being a believer
in magic), and that Joseph had this Jupiter talisman on him at the
time of his death.

Brigham Young had claimed that God Himself had
revealed this doctrine to him. Brigham also had claimed that his
sermons were "as good as scripture" (J. of D., vol. 13, p. 166).

Latter Day Saints (LDS) Lies about Jesus in
trying to make Polygamy (many wives) acceptable:

Joseph Fielding Smith, who was the president of the LDS Church in
1970's, said, in an answer to a question: "Was Jesus married?" -
"Yes, but do not throw pearls to the swine!" We can clearly see that
the LDS church still mistakenly believes that Jesus was married,
even a polygamist, but doesn't
want to "throw pearls to the swine" or to reveal this to non-Mormons.

The leaders of the LDS Church have also taught
that their Jesus was married and had children, and that he was even
a polygamist. Apostle Orson Pratt, in his book, The Seer, page 172,
says:

"...the great Messiah who was the founder of
the Christian religion was a Polygamist...the Messiah chose to take
upon himself his seed; and by marrying many honorable wives himself,
show to all future generations that he approved the plurality of
Wives under Christian dispensation.

Joseph Smith taught that a man who
took ten wives with him to heaven had ten times as much chance of
becoming God of his own planet than a man who took only one wife. It
is said that Joseph’s own adventure with plural marriage began with
Fannie Alger. Oliver Cowdery, who at one time was second in command
of the Mormon Church, called Joseph’s relation with Fannie Alger, at
that time about eighteen, “a dirty, nasty, filthy affair.”

The government of the Mormon Church is a monarchical style of
administration. The head of the church, the “President,” is
assisted by apostles and other General Authorities. The
President makes all appointments and decisions of the church.
The President of the church is not elected by church members, but
assumes power strictly by seniority (as an apostle) as the oldest
apostle.

Exactly like
Muhammad of Islam, Joseph Smith
had a knack for coming up with "miraculous", timely and convenient revelations
that benefited himself:

Emma Hale
Smith

Evidence that Joseph Smith was probably nothing other
than an uninspired man and a charlatan can be found in the way he (like
Muhammad of
Islam) received "miraculous", timely and convenient revelations that suited his own
personal life. Joseph Smith was an advocate of plural
marriage. Below is a timely and convenient
"revelation" which Joseph Smith said he miraculously
received from God admonishing his own wife Emma Smith who was
against polygamy:

"Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give
unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto
you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded
you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to prove you
all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your
hand, by covenant and sacrifice. And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith,
receive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and
who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and
have said they were pure shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God. For
I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto
my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for
he hath been faithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will
strengthen him. And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide
and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will
not abide this commandment she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord;
for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in
my law. But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my
servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I
will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an hundredfold in
this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and
lands, wives and children, and crowns of eternal lives in the
eternal worlds. And again, verily I say, let mine handmaid forgive
my servant Joseph his trespasses; and then shall she be forgiven her
trespasses, wherein she has trespassed against Me; and I, the Lord
thy God, will bless her, and multiply her, and make her heart to
rejoice.

Early LDS President, Brigham Young Taught
that Adam is God:

He said; "Now hear it, O inhabitants of the
earth, Jew and Gentile, Saint and sinner! When our father Adam came
into the garden of Eden, he came into it with a celestial body, and
brought Eve, one of his wives, with him. He helped to make and
organize the world. He is Michael, the Arc-angel, the Ancient of
Days! about whom holy men have written and spoken - HE IS OUR FATHER
AND OUR GOD, AND THE ONLY GOD WITH WHOM WE HAVE TO DO. Every man
upon the earth, professing Christians or non-professing, must hear
it, and will know it sooner or later... the earth was organized by
three distinct characters, namely, Eloheim, Yahovah, and Michael,
these three forming a quorum, as in heavenly bodies, and in
organizing element, perfectly represented in the Deity, as Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost." Journal of Discourses, vol. 1, pp. 50-51.

in the Millenial Star, vol. 17, page 195, we
read:

"... every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that he (Adam)
is God of the whole earth. Then will the words of the prophet
Brigham Young, WHEN SPEAKING OF ADAM, be fully realized - 'HE IS OUR
FATHER AND OUR GOD, AND THE ONLY GOD WITH WHOM WE HAVE TO DO.'"

Further in the Millenial Star, vol. 16, page
530, we read the counsel by James A. Little: "I believe in the
principal of obedience; and if I am told that Adam is our Father and
our God, I just believe it." The records show that there were only
two leaders in the Church who had difficulty with this doctrine,
namely apostles Orson Pratt and Amasa Lyman. In one of Brigham's
sermons, printed in the "Deseret News," June 14, 1873, Brigham
declared:

"How much unbelief exists in the minds of the
Latter-day Saints in regard to one particular doctrine which I
revealed to them, and WHICH GOD REVEALED TO ME - namely that ADAM IS
OUR FATHER AND GOD... Our Father Adam helped to make this earth, it
was created expressly for him. He brought one of his wives with him.
Who is he? He is Michael... He was the first man on the earth, and
its framer and maker. He with the help of his brethren brought it
into existence."

JOSEPH SMITH's NONSENSICAL translation: 'The
Book of Abraham'

The Book of Abraham was canonized in 1880 by
the LDS church, and it remains an important part of the larger
scriptural work, The Pearl of Great Price. The Book of Abraham text
is a source of some unique Latter-day Saint doctrines such as the
exaltation of humanity, the plurality of gods, priesthood,
pre-mortal existence, and other inhabited worlds in the cosmos. The
Book of Abraham also contains the only reference in the Latter-day
Saint canon to the star Kolob, which, according to the text, is the
star closest to where God lives.

The Book of Abraham papyri were thought lost
in the 1871 Great Chicago Fire. However, in 1966 several fragments
of the papyri were found in the archives of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art in New York, and in the LDS Church archives. They are now
referred to as the Joseph Smith Papyri. Upon examination by
professional Mormon and non-Mormon Egyptologists, the papyri were
found to bear no resemblance to Joseph Smith's interpretation, and
were common Egyptian funerary texts, dating to about the first
century BC.

Egyptologist Dr. James H. Breasted, of the
University of Chicago noted:

"... these three facsimiles of Egyptian documents in the ‘Pearl of
Great Price’ depict the most common objects in the Mortuary religion
of Egypt. Joseph Smith’s interpretations of them as part of a unique
revelation through Abraham, therefore, very clearly demonstrates
that he was totally unacquainted with the significance of these
documents and absolutely ignorant of the simplest facts of Egyptian
writing and civilization."

In the (Mormon) Temple ceremony, Michael, the Archangel, is one of
the creators of the world and he then "becomes" Adam. According to
Mormonism, "GODS" created the world, (see Pearl of Great Price,
Abraham 4 and 5), Adam being one of them, one of three gods. It is
clearly implied that he is God. There are more writings and
documented evidence to this fact.
Brigham has emphasized that Jesus was not begotten by the Holy
Ghost, as he falsely says the Bible says. This teaching shows that Jesus of the LDS
Church is not "Emmanuel," "God with us;" God, who, according to the
Bible (Matt. 1:23), became a man for us, to be our Redeemer. Jesus
of the LDS Church is a created being, who also had to be redeemed...

This "Gods created the world" concept by Mormonism is a corruption
of Genesis 1:26 which to mainline Christian Churches is taken to be
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Not Adam!

And
God said, Let us make man in our image, after our
likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping
thing that creepeth upon the earth. Genesis
1:26

Mormons think that Jesus's Atonement is not
Sufficient:Young and later Mormon apostles and presidents taught that the
blood of Christ was not sufficient to cover all sins. However, by
having their blood spilled on the ground, the guilty could make
atonement for their own sins and obtain a better salvation at the
resurrection. What sort of sins did Young and others consider beyond
the reach of Christ’s forgiveness? Various Mormon documents mention
murder, adultery, whoredom, stealing, lying, marrying or having
sexual intercourse with a Negro, and apostasy.

Most information for the above article is taken from
ex-Mormon's words and in-depth study.....

Mormons are Masters of
the double-speak - and like Muhammad of Islam, the timely
"Revelation"....

Although the Mormon leadership, through a "revelation" in 1978, did
allow black males to be ordained, it has not changed passages in its
scripture teaching that "a skin of blackness" is a curse from God.
The double-speak about "a skin of blackness" is such as Mr. Ostling
writes in "Mormon America" that the references pertain to American
Indians, rather than African-Americans.

Muhammad's made up
Qur'an says this and more about blacks: Muslims are told that
Africans “annoy the Prophet” (Ishaq 243),
have hearts “grosser than a donkey” (Surah 9:61) Read more at "Black
Muslims" here

Two obstacles must be overcome in
understanding Mormon doctrine. The first is historical. Because of
changes brought about through ongoing revelation, Mormon doctrine is
inconsistent and even self-contradictory. The 1830 edition of the
Book of Mormon initially remained doctrinally close to orthodoxy. It
declared God to be one, to be spirit, and to be unchangeable in his
decrees. Christ was presented as a divine being who is one with the
Father. It declared polygamy abominable and commended monogamy as
the rule for marriage. Salvation was said to consist of repentance,
baptism, remission of sins, and the reception of the Spirit. The
unsaved were thought to have no second chance for salvation after
death. Yet within a few years, Joseph Smith changed his mind about
each of these doctrines. Subsequent Mormon seers and revelators have
made additional changes.

The Planet
Kolob....

The second obstacle in understanding Mormonism
is language. Mormons radically redefine traditional Christian
terminology to fit their altered doctrine. It is extremely important
to bear this in mind when talking with a Mormon. The God of
Mormonism is not the God of Christianity, but a finite, resurrected
man with a physical body who lives on the planet Kolob. The Christ
of Mormonism is not the Christ of Christianity, but the literal
spiritual and physical son of God. Mormons call Christ their elder
brother believing that, like themselves, his spirit was begotten
celestially by God through intercourse with a heavenly mother. They
believe Christ’s incarnation resulted from God having sexual
intercourse with Mary.

"And I saw the stars, that they
were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto
the throne of God; and there were many great ones which
were near unto it; And the Lord said unto me: These are
the governing ones; and the name of the great one is
Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy
God: I have set this one to govern all those which
belong to the same order as that (the earth)
upon which thou standest." Pearl of Great Price
3:2-3

When Mormons speak of being born again, they
do not mean spiritual regeneration but baptism into the Mormon
church. Salvation is not redemption from sin or spiritual death but
the overcoming of physical death. According to Mormon theology, the
atonement wrought by Christ merely reversed the penalty of physical
death caused by Adam’s fall. Salvation, in the form of resurrection
and immortality, is thereby guaranteed for all.

President Joseph Fielding Smith (10th
President of the LDS Church) made the following statement:

“We accept these three
personages as the supreme governing council in the
heavens. The Father and the Son have
tabernacles of flesh and bones, and the Holy
Ghost is a personage of Spirit. We worship the
Father in the name of the son who is the Mediator
between God and man, and his is the only name given
whereby man can be saved. We accept Jesus as the
Only Begotten Son of the Father in the flesh,
although we are all his offspring in the spirit, and
therefore his children.”

Mormon Proxy Baptism

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints believes that a dead person can be baptized by proxy, which
means that a Mormon can be baptized on behalf of someone who has
already died.

The Church teaches that because millions of people lived and died
without learning the teachings of Jesus Christ and without belonging
to his Church, ordinances such as baptism and eternal marriage
should be carried out on earth on their behalf.

Mormons believe that this restores a practice followed by the early
Christians.

Mormons believe that baptizing an ancestor who died without hearing
the true gospel as restored by the Church is a demonstration of
their love for that person.

In order to help Mormons track down the names of their ancestors so
that they can baptize them the Church has built the largest
genealogical database in the world

Joseph Smith said that it was "our privilege to act as an agent and
be baptized for the remission of sins for and in behalf of our dead
kindred who have not heard the gospel of the fullness of it."

Ceremony
Such baptisms can only be performed in special fonts in Mormon
Temples.

Women act as proxies for women and men for men. There are witnesses
present and a proper record is kept, although the ceremony does not
make the person for whom the baptism is performed a Mormon.

Confirmation and higher ordinances can also be performed by proxy.

What's the point?
Mormons believe that this doctrine ends the injustice millions of
people being damned just because they died without learning of the
gospel of Christ.

Traditional faith says that people are judged totally on what they
do in this life. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
doesn't completely agree and believes that there is a second chance
for everyone.

In Mormon belief, every soul spends time after death in a place
where they are given the chance to hear and accept the gospel.

If they accept the gospel they must be baptized in order to enter
into a covenant with Christ and have their sins washed away. But at
this stage the person is a spirit without a body and so they can't
be baptized because this involves total immersion of their body in
water. Hence the need for proxy baptism, using someone else's body.

Other Faiths
There have been complaints that particularly enthusiastic Mormons
have been carrying out proxy baptisms for prominent historical and
religious figures including the members of other faiths.

For example the Ba'al Shem Tov, the 18th century founder of the
Hasidic Jewish movement, was baptized a Mormon.

In 1995 the Church agreed to halt proxy baptisms of Holocaust
victims and other deceased Jews, and to remove the names of all
Holocaust victims from the files. Such names are now only accepted
if they are resubmitted by a direct descendant or if consent is
obtained from the dead person's immediate family.

Since that agreement Church genealogists have stripped hundreds of
thousands of Jewish names from baptismal records.

Theological problem
Members of other faiths argue that it is just plain wrong to baptize
dead people and make them Mormons when they can't have any say in
the matter.

Mormons say that this is a fundamental error. No-one has to accept a
proxy baptism. Just as the soul in paradise has a free choice to
accept or reject the true gospel, they have a free choice to accept
or reject the baptism.

If they choose to accept the gospel, the proxy baptism means that
they are fully equipped to move on in their spiritual life.

Scriptural truth is that Jesus Christ
is also God...

"I am Alpha and Omega,
the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which
was, and which is to come, the Almighty" (Revelation 1:8)

Jehovah has declared
He will not share His glory. Jesus has declared that He had that
glory before the world was.

In Isaiah 42:8 Jehovah
himself is speaking, and He emphatically declares "I am the LORD:
that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another,
neither my praise to graven images. Again, in Isaiah 48:11, Jehovah
is speaking, and He declares: "For mine own sake, even for mine own
sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I
will not give my glory unto another."

John 17:5 tells us Jesus said; "And now, O Father, glorify thou me
with thine own self with the *glory which I had with thee
before the world was*."

Of course that is what Jesus is speaking of. He is speaking of being
part of the Godhead Himself. Since God will not share His glory. And
Jesus tells us He had this glory with Yahweh/Jehovah before
creation. What more proof from Jehovah's lips or from the lips of
Jesus do you want?

John 1:1-4 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All
things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that
was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

For unto us a Child is
born, unto us a son is given; and the government will be upon His
shoulder: and his name will be called Wonderful, Counsellor,
The mighty God, The everlasting
Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6 (written: 712 BC )

Jesus said:I and my Father are one. John 10:30

And Thomas answered
and said unto him [Jesus], My Lord and my
God.John 20:28

'A Vote for Romney is vote for Satan'
Christian leader follows up Sharpton attack on Mormons

Bill Keller

While some evangelical Christians are defending the
presidential candidacy of Mormon Mitt Romney from an
attack by Al Sharpton, another prominent pastor is going
further in his condemnation – saying a vote for the
former Massachusetts governor is a vote for Satan.

That's the word from Bill Keller, host of the
Florida-based Live Prayer TV program as well as
LivePrayer.com.

"If you vote for Mitt Romney, you are voting for
Satan!" he writes in his daily devotional.

Keller also comes out swinging against the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a cult.

"This message today is not about Mitt Romney," he
writes. "Romney is an unashamed and proud member of the
Mormon cult founded by a murdering polygamist pedophile
named Joseph Smith nearly 200 years ago. The teachings
of the Mormon cult are doctrinally and theologically in
complete opposition to the Absolute Truth of God's Word.
There is no common ground. If Mormonism is true, then
the Christian faith is a complete lie. There has never
been any question from the moment Smith's cult began
that it was a work of Satan and those who follow their
false teachings will die and spend eternity in hell."

Keller is also critical of other evangelicals who
have reached out to Romney.

"I have watched in horror over the past weeks as one
evangelical Christian leader after another has either
endorsed, supported, or just as bad, refused to denounce
Romney's run for the White House and those Christian
leaders who support him," Keller writes. "Last weekend
Pat Robertson, founder of CBN and Regent University, had
Romney deliver the keynote address to the graduates of
Regent. Regent is one of the great Christian colleges in
this nation, and Robertson allowed this cult member to
deliver the commencement address. Is he out of his mind?
Do you think there would ever be a true Gospel preacher
giving the commencement address at Brigham Young?"

Keller warned about
Mormonism:

"I have been warning you for years now about this
cult born out of the pits of hell and responsible for
sending millions of souls to eternal damnation," Keller
says. "For the nearly 200 years this cult has been in
existence they have strived for mainstream acceptance.
They are the most devious of all the cults since they
have always tried to portray themselves as 'just another
Christian group' when in fact, they are no more
Christian than a Muslim is! Their deception starts with
their name, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
Saints. Sounds like a Christian church doesn't it? Some
Mormons have recently changed their name to simply
Community of Christ to disguise even better who they are
in an attempt to lure people in."

Keller says that when LDS members talk of
God and Jesus they are not talking about the God and
Jesus of Christianity. He claims Romney's high-profile
candidacy for the presidency is an important effort by
the church to gain credibility and respectability.

He says if Romney wins the White House, millions of
people will be attracted to Mormonism.

"Those who follow the false teachings of this cult,
believe in the false jesus of the Mormon cult and reject
faith in the one true Jesus of the Bible, will die and
spend eternity in hell," Keller charges. "Romney getting
elected president will ultimately lead millions of souls
to the eternal flames of hell!"

Keller also criticizes Romney for political
flip-flops on issues like abortion, citing a recent
report that his wife donated money to Planned
Parenthood, the largest abortion provider in the world.

There is no
excuse, no justification for supporting and voting for a
man who will be used by satan to lead the souls of
millions into the eternal flames of hell!"

Mormon
bishop's daughter; "It
amazes me that most of the world has not awakened to the
false religion of Mormonism."

Tricia Erickson said:
"I was born and raised as a Mormon. In fact, I was a Mormon
bishop's daughter. It amazes me that most of the world has
not awakened to the false religion of Mormonism.

"I pray every day
for the Lord to deliver my son, my brother and my nephew and
their wives and children out of the blindness and mind
control of this cult."

Christian conservatives in the south are wary of America's
six million Mormons, who worship Jesus but follow the Book
of Mormon, which they claim was revealed to their founder
Joseph Smith in the 1820s to correct errors in the Bible.

Miss Erickson
accuses Joseph Smith of devising the doctrine of polygamy to
gratify his own "sex addiction".

•He will become a "god" in the afterlife and be
given his own planet
•Satan is Jesus' literal brother
•Jesus was not born of a virgin birth
•He will be given his own afterlife kingdom where he will
have sexual relations with his wife, Ann, to populate his
kingdom with spirit children as God the Father Himself has a
wife on His own planet.

"Mormonism teaches we pre-existed on God the Father's planet
as spirit children before we were planted in our mother's
wombs," Erickson told WND. "And the reason why we're here
according to Mormonism, is so that we can work out our own
progression to godhood and our own planets themselves."

The author, who herself was married in a Mormon temple at
age 19 but now considers herself a non-denominational
Christian, says there's a secret agenda Mormon officials
don't like to talk about publicly.

"A complete takeover of the government," she said. "They
have more people in the CIA, the FBI. They have an
employment office for Mormons in D.C. to be able to
infiltrate them into the government."

"They've been trying since the beginning to get someone in
the presidency, because they believe they have to establish
their authority so when Jesus comes to Earth, the Mormon
Church will take control of the government and the Mormons
will be the government of God on Earth," she continued.

Erickson says her main concern is that the leader of the
free world have the ability to discern fact from fiction.

"It may be crucial to our survival," she said. "If his
beliefs are distorted, which they unequivocally are, why
would it not be be critical to our existence to protect our
country from being placed in the hands of such a person?"

References for this is found in John 14:6; Acts 4:12, and 26:28; 1
Peter 4:16. One cannot be a Christian without verbally confessing
the deity of Jesus the Christ. One cannot even pray to God, let
alone have sins remitted by Him, without approaching Him through
Jesus (John 14:6 and 13, 15:16; 16:23-24; Romans 5:2, and Ephesians
2:18).

I know Muslims and Mormons, Christian Scientists, Jehovah Witnesses,
Unitarians, Scientologists, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus,
Seventh Day Adventists -and many others - will not want to hear
this, but the Bible declares that Jesus was the FINAL revelation of
God to man (Hebrews 1:1-3). There have been no others.